Garth Turnbull is a senior leader at Korn Ferry with over 10 years’ tenure and more than 15 years’ experience across agency, in house and RPO environments. He is trusted to lead complex, high value client portfolios, bringing strong commercial discipline and calm, pragmatic leadership in enterprise settings.
Over the past three financial years, Garth has driven significant commercial outcomes, generating substantial new revenue while securing multiple renewals, extensions, and service expansions across existing clients. He delivered exceptional results across 14 accounts, achieving an average gross margin of 45%, while successfully leading and scaling teams of more than 80 employees through hybrid onshore and offshore delivery models.
Garth is widely sought for complex pursuits and enterprise engagements and is a strong advocate of the “Be More Than” solutions approach, partnering across Executive Search, Professional Search, Advisory and Digital to deliver integrated outcomes for clients.
Within RPO, he has supported more than 20 clients across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, spanning specialist, senior leadership and large scale hiring. His experience covers Financial Services, Industrial, Consumer, Life Sciences, Technology and Government, working with both local and global organisations.
Garth is best known for driving talent acquisition transformation through AI enabled technology, data led insight and continuous improvement. He is equally committed to culture, recognised as a coach and mentor with zero leadership team attrition in recent years, and operates consistently at an enterprise leadership level.
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